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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Rigging Boxing Fights

Boxing is a dangerous but rewarding sport.
It requires years of hard work. Careers are best undertaken
in well planned steps, increasing the level of opponent in
proper fashion, until one hopefully reaches the pinnacle of
the sport, culminating into a world championship. That is
the ideal route to take.

Most boxers are hardworking and doing
things the right way within the rules of the sport. However,
last November I found out something regarding a boxer that
disappointed me. I currently know of a boxer who wanted fame
and fortune overnight and took the wrong route. I have it on
very good authority that his last two fights were rigged. It
brought him two titles months apart, but the wrong way,
which isn’t fair to the many hardworking, honest fighters in
the sport or to the fans.

After his fight last winter, a very
credible source informed me that it was rigged. I was very
disappointed to learn this. I had hoped he would take the
honest route. It was so unnecessary and not good for the
sport. The next fight this particular boxer had took place a
few short months ago during this past spring and it was
rigged as well. The second rigged fight a few months ago was
more obvious. A male sports writer commented on a boxing
site that the opposing boxer "threw himself down" after
barely getting hit (when he’d successfully taken much bigger
punches before that did not result in him being knocked down
or knocked out). It supported what I had been told about his
previous title fight being rigged. Some people are now
publicly calling the win a paper title.

The problem with fight rigging is when one
acquires a title, one must at some point defend it by facing
mandatory challengers. Not every opponent is going to go
along with fight rigging. After rigging two title fights and
prior to that fighting opponents who were labeled
journeymen, what happens when the boxer gets a tough
mandatory like Tyson Fury or Deontay Wilder, who can both
box very well and hit hard. He could end up in the hospital.

It is a dangerous thing to prematurely
occupy a title one is not ready for, as an untested boxer
can end up hospitalized with serious injuries under such
circumstances, due to the sheer force of the punches in the
heavyweight division from its most skilled fighters. Hence
me ringing the alarm on this matter, as it is dangerous. To
surround one’s self with yes men and crazy people from the
entertainment industry, who know nothing about boxing and
insanely think they are the illuminati, while promising said
boxer fame and fortune, is to put one’s career, health and
life in jeopardy, while getting into the square circle.
Boxing is not a game. Some people walk in the ring and end
up getting carried out with serious injuries.

To lull a boxer into a false sense of
security, filling his life with Hollywood hype, then when
the real test comes he ends up hospitalized, is seriously
wrong and unethical. The sad part is he did not have to take
this route. In time with hard work and diligence he could
have legitimately reached very far. However, now he is on a
rapid collision course with disaster, due to the love of
money, which truly is the root of all evil, as the Bible
says. There's nothing wrong with having money, but when you
love it to the point it compromises you, leading you to
start lying to your fans, betraying decent people who helped
you when you had nothing and you stop listening to honest
family and friends in your life in favor of fake famous
friends who aren't really your friends, it inevitably leads
to trouble.